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Mahzarin R. Banaji

Mahzarin R. Banaji

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Psychology

D-Index
107
Citations
92845
World Ranking
433
National Ranking
277

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2017 - APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association
  • 2016 - William James Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science (APA)
  • 2016 - Donald T. Campbell Award, Society for Personality and Social Psychology
  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2001 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Mahzarin R. Banaji is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and focuses their research primarily in the social sciences and psychology. Their scholarly work covers important subfields including sociology and political science, gender studies, social psychology, artificial intelligence, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The topics they have extensively explored in their research include social and intergroup psychology, cultural differences and values, gender diversity and inequality, racial and ethnic identity research, gender roles and identity studies, names, identity, and discrimination research, as well as gender studies in language.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Systemic racism: individuals and interactions, institutions and society (2021), published in Cognitive Research Principles and Implications
  • Gender Stereotypes in Natural Language: Word Embeddings Show Robust Consistency Across Child and Adult Language Corpora of More Than 65 Million Words (2021), published in Psychological Science
  • Patterns of Implicit and Explicit Stereotypes III: Long-Term Change in Gender Stereotypes (2021), published in Social Psychological and Personality Science
  • Adults and children implicitly associate brilliance with men more than women (2020), published in Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
  • Patterns of Implicit and Explicit Attitudes: IV. Change and Stability From 2007 to 2020 (2022), published in Psychological Science

Their frequent collaborators include:

  • Tessa Elizabeth Sadie Charlesworth (10 joint publications)
  • Aylin Caliskan (6 joint publications)
  • Benedek Kurdi (5 joint publications)
  • Steven A. Lehr (5 joint publications)
  • Kirsten N. Morehouse (4 joint publications)

They have published often in these venues:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (5 publications)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (3 publications)
  • Cognitive Research Principles and Implications (2 publications)
  • Psychological Science (2 publications)
  • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (2 publications)

Mahzarin R. Banaji has received multiple awards recognizing their scientific contributions, including:

  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2018)
  • APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association (2017)
  • William James Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science (2016)
  • Donald T. Campbell Award, Society for Personality and Social Psychology (2016)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (2009)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2008)
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2001)

Best Publications

  • Implicit Social Cognition: Attitudes, Self-Esteem, and Stereotypes.

    Anthony G. Greenwald;Mahzarin R. Banaji

  • Understanding and using the Implicit Association Test: I. An improved scoring algorithm.

    Anthony G. Greenwald;Brian A. Nosek;Mahzarin R. Banaji

  • A unified theory of implicit attitudes, stereotypes, self-esteem, and self-concept.

    Anthony G. Greenwald;Mahzarin R. Banaji;Laurie A. Rudman;Shelly D. Farnham

  • The role of stereotyping in system‐justification and the production of false consciousness

    John T. Jost;Mahzarin R. Banaji

  • Understanding and using the Implicit Association Test: III. Meta-analysis of predictive validity.

    Anthony G. Greenwald;T. Andrew Poehlman;Eric Luis Uhlmann;Mahzarin R. Banaji

  • A Decade of System Justification Theory: Accumulated Evidence of Conscious and Unconscious Bolstering of the Status Quo

    John T. Jost;Mahzarin R. Banaji;Brian A. Nosek

  • Harvesting implicit group attitudes and beliefs from a demonstration web site

    Brian A. Nosek;Mahzarin R. Banaji;Anthony G. Greenwald

  • Implicit Bias among Physicians and its Prediction of Thrombolysis Decisions for Black and White Patients

    Alexander R. Green;Dana R. Carney;Daniel J. Pallin;Long H. Ngo

  • The Implicit Association Test at Age 7: A Methodological and Conceptual Review

    Brian A. Nosek;Anthony G. Greenwald;Mahzarin R. Banaji

  • THE GO/NO-GO ASSOCIATION TASK

    Brian A. Nosek;Mahzarin R. Banaji

  • Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People

    Mahzarin R. Banaji;Anthony G. Greenwald

  • Psychological research online: report of Board of Scientific Affairs' Advisory Group on the Conduct of Research on the Internet.

    Robert Kraut;Judith Olson;Mahzarin Banaji;Amy Bruckman

  • Performance on Indirect Measures of Race Evaluation Predicts Amygdala Activation

    Elizabeth A. Phelps;Kevin J. O'Connor;William A. Cunningham;E. Sumie Funayama

  • Understanding and Using the Implicit Association Test: II. Method Variables and Construct Validity

    Brian A. Nosek;Anthony G. Greenwald;Mahzarin R. Banaji

  • Implicit Attitude Measures: Consistency, Stability, and Convergent Validity

    William A. Cunningham;Kristopher J. Preacher;Mahzarin R. Banaji

  • Math Male, Me Female, Therefore Math Me

    Brian A. Nosek;Mahzarin R. Banaji;Anthony G. Greenwald

  • National differences in gender–science stereotypes predict national sex differences in science and math achievement

    Brian A. Nosek;Frederick L. Smyth;N. Sriram;Nicole M. Lindner

  • Dissociable Medial Prefrontal Contributions to Judgments of Similar and Dissimilar Others

    Jason P. Mitchell;C. Neil Macrae;Mahzarin R. Banaji

  • Automatic and Controlled Processes in Stereotype Priming

    Irene V. Blair;Mahzarin R. Banaji

  • The Development of Implicit Attitudes Evidence of Race Evaluations From Ages 6 and 10 and Adulthood

    Andrew Scott Baron;Mahzarin R. Banaji

Frequent Co-Authors

Anthony G. Greenwald
Anthony G. Greenwald University of Washington
Brian A. Nosek
Brian A. Nosek Center for Open Science
Jason P. Mitchell
Jason P. Mitchell Harvard University
Elizabeth A. Phelps
Elizabeth A. Phelps Harvard University
Yarrow Dunham
Yarrow Dunham Yale University
Elizabeth S. Spelke
Elizabeth S. Spelke Harvard University
Bethany A. Teachman
Bethany A. Teachman University of Virginia
Kristina R. Olson
Kristina R. Olson University of Washington
C. Neil Macrae
C. Neil Macrae University of Aberdeen
Carol S. Dweck
Carol S. Dweck Stanford University

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